NCT00954083

A Pilot Trial of a Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Bases (DIR)/Floortime for Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a DIR/ Floortime Parent Training Intervention for Pre-school Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mahidol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Thirty two children age 2-6 years are recruited into the study and the randomization will be stratified for chronological age and symptom severity into 2 main groups, intervention and control. The intervention group will receive an additional target treatment of DIR/Floortime parent training intervention, while the control group will continue on their routine care for 3 months. Hypothesis: Children in the intervention group show much improvement in climbing the developmental "ladder" and declining in the autistic behaviors.

Conditions

• Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	DIR/Floortime	Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Bases (DIR) focus more on relationship, social skills, and meaningful, spontaneous use of language and communication and integrated understand of human development
BEHAVIORAL	Routine care	Routine care

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-06-01
• Primary completion: 2008-10-01
• Completion: 2009-04-01
• First posted: 2009-08-06
• Last updated: 2009-08-06